--- title: France fines telcos €42M for issues leading to 2024 breach description: French data protection regulator CNIL fined Free and Free Mobile €42 million for GDPR violations following an October 2024 breach affecting 24 million... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/france-fines-telcos-42m-for-issues-leading-to-2024-breach-hoqqzpcqt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: France fines telcos €42M for issues leading to 2024 breach | daily.dev og:description: French data protection regulator CNIL fined Free and Free Mobile €42 million for GDPR violations following an October 2024 breach affecting 24 million... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/france-fines-telcos-42m-for-issues-leading-to-2024-breach-hoqqzpcqt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HOQqZpcQT.png og:image:alt: France fines telcos €42M for issues leading to 2024 breach og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # France fines telcos €42M for issues leading to 2024 breach **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary French data protection regulator CNIL fined Free and Free Mobile €42 million for GDPR violations following an October 2024 breach affecting 24 million customers. Attackers accessed the network via VPN and exfiltrated data including IBANs. The companies violated GDPR by failing to implement basic security measures like robust VPN authentication and anomaly detection, inadequately notifying affected users, and lacking proper data retention and deletion mechanisms. The fines were based on Iliad Group's €10 billion turnover. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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